Black and White

Today I had an urge to use just black and white.

Oh, and a touch of glitter!

I know its only simple but i quite like it. 

I used OPI Alpine Snow, Sinful Colors Black on Black and L'oreal Confetti. The white line are done with a striper from The Born Pretty Store. 

I hadn't used the Confetti polish in months and it had gone sooooo thick. Im glad I had some thinner to hand! 

I really like Confetti as it has really small bits of glitter in as well which adds to the sparkle! i think it looks especially good over pastels. 

I used a make up sponge to do the gradient. 

What do you think of this mani? Do you like monochrome manis?

In other news I reached 4000 Likes on Facebook!! Thank you all so much!! 

*Insert Oscar type speech here* 

Confetti Zigzag

I am a massive fan of L'Oreal's Confetti topcoat. I saw it sat on my shelf looking all lonely so I just had to crack it open! One of the things I like most about the Confetti the micro glitter partials, if you squint you may see it! But seriously, in real life, you can see it and I really think it adds too the whole effect.

To do this I used my ole faithful! Neo Whimsical by Essie. I use this polish more than I use any other (maybe on par with BarryM's Matt White)
I find it a great base for doing art and I am a big fan of a nude, oh behave!

I then used some of those fancy scissors to cut this shape out of masking tape. I am "borrowing" these off my Nan and she has lent me about 15 pairs of different shaped ones! She uses them for card making but they work really well for this.

The darker pink is Essie's Cascade Cool. I did try and do the Confetti in a zigzag and it did work, of a fashion, but I wanted to accentuate it so outlined in acrylic paint. The line is not exactly straight so that's a bummer but I am still happy with it.

Its been a while since I have done anything like this and I think I will be doing it more often, its really pretty :)

A design like this works in any colourway but just bare in mind to go from light to dark :)

I hope you like this everyone and please leave me a lil comment below, I love getting comments, its like the excitement I get when I am waiting for the postman!

Royal Bow

 I have been so ill this week I haven't had chance to do anything! So here is my first nail art, a red, white and blue mani with a bow. 

This really reminds me of a English Royal celebration with the colours and confetti type topcoat. 

Unfortunately the blue i used for the bow smudged a bit when i added the Poshe topcoat. 

I used;

Base colour: OPI's Red Lights Ahead,Where? 

Confetti: InVougue feather Effect in Jaye Bird

Bow: Barry M's Gelly Nail Paint in Blackberry, Barry M Nail Art Pens in Black and White. 

I absolutely love this design, and I really like the InVogue Feather Effect on top of the red. It really reminds me of England!

The OPI looks orange in this light and it is really more of a bright red, but for some reason i couldnt really capture this on my camera.

You can purchase the whole InVogue range in Superdrug and HERE

 Here the colour of the OPI is a lot more accurate.

BARRY M MORE NEW PRODUCTS!

I was doing my usual read of another nail blog Polished Criminails when i discovered that there will be more new products coming in June!

 

 

Confetti Nail Effects.

This type has polish has been everywhere this year and now Barry M are release their version, I am particularly interested in the blue one!!

Colours are Dolly Mixture (Multi), Liquorice (Black/White), Marshmallow (Pink), Bubblegum (Blue), Sour Apple (Green). 

These can used as a top coat or can be built up to a more opaque shade using multiple coats.

 

There will also be five new members of the Gelly family :) again i am looking forward to the blue!

 

 Key Lime (Lime Green), Guava (Teal), Passion Fruit (Pink/Red), Blue Grape (Cobalt Blue), Mango (Orange)

Both Polishes will retail at £3.99 and will be available on June 5th in Superdrug and Boots on June 12th :)